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  • $500

Get AI-Ready With Erik

  • Course
  • 31 Lessons

Vector search is landing in your SQL Server whether you invited it or not. You don't have to know how it works - you just have to know how to work with it. Learn semantic search, embeddings, VECTOR types, DiskANN indexes, and RAG using real StackOverflow data. No AI hype, no toy examples - just practical patterns from first query to production. Get AI ready without the nonsense.

  • $500

SQL Server Performance Engineering

  • Course
  • 102 Lessons

Every SQL Server professional needs to understand not just what makes queries fast, but what makes them slow. This knowledge is essential whether you're aiming to become a performance wizard or trying to make those problematic queries stop holding up the business. By the end of this course, you'll have the tools and confidence to diagnose and resolve performance issues without resorting to guesswork or prayer.

  • $500

Learn T-SQL With Erik

  • Course
  • 161 Lessons

This course is all about T-SQL. You'll learn how to write queries that return correct results, and don't make the server break down when they run. This material spans beginner to advanced, and includes concepts applicable to transactional and reporting workloads. Whether you're designing the next super high concurrency application, or working as a data scientist, engineer, or analyst, this course is for you.

  • $2,500/mo

Monthly SQL Server Performance Retainer

  • Coaching session

Year-round SQL Server performance coverage without full-time DBA costs. Monthly health checks with my scripts, 3 hours live consulting time, 24-hour email support, quarterly deep-dive sessions, and one emergency response per year. Catch problems before they blow up. Best for teams who need expert SQL Server help without the headcount.

  • $2,000

Darling Data Health Check

  • Coaching session

Get a SQL Server health check to quickly assess performance and stability issues. Just run my data collector, send me the zip file, and I'll go over all the numbers to produce a PDF document detailing short, medium, and long-term changes you can make to your SQL Server. You should choose this option if you're comfortable making the changes on your own. If not, choose the option with consulting hours included.

  • $2,999

10 Hours SQL Server Performance Consulting

  • Coaching session

Buy 10 hours of my time to dig into your SQL Server performance problems, and get hands on help solving them. Here's what I typically provide in my consulting engagements: * Correctly configured servers * Right-sized hardware * Efficient indexes * Optimized schema * Finely tuned queries * Resolved blocking and deadlocking * Well-trained database staff We can typically get started within a couple days of purchase.

  • $5,999

20 Hours SQL Server Performance Consulting

  • Coaching session

Buy 20 hours of my time to dig into your SQL Server performance problems, and get hands on help solving them. Here's what I typically provide in my consulting engagements: * Correctly configured servers * Right-sized hardware * Efficient indexes * Optimized schema * Finely tuned queries * Resolved blocking and deadlocking * Well-trained database staff We can typically get started within a couple days of purchase.

  • $9,999

40 Hours SQL Server Performance Consulting

  • Coaching session

Buy 40 hours of my time to dig into your SQL Server performance problems, and get hands on help solving them. Here's what I typically provide in my consulting engagements: * Correctly configured servers * Right-sized hardware * Efficient indexes * Optimized schema * Finely tuned queries * Resolved blocking and deadlocking * Well-trained database staff We can typically get started within a couple days of purchase.

What You Get

Look, there’s a lot of training out there. If it’s not expensive, it’s outdated, and that’s not fair to you. Getting a quality, up to date education in SQL Server performance tuning should be affordable.

Whether you need to know how to fix a problem quickly, or you want to deeply understand it and gain knowledge you can use for the rest of your career, my training library has got you covered.

Training Video Collections

Starting SQL

Facing a tough query or index problem? Wondering ‘how do I learn the SQL I need, quickly?’ No problem! This SQL intro collection will teach you the basic SQL commands you need. Perfect for SQL amateurs (or giving yourself a refresher), these videos will cover introduction to queries and introduction to indexes.

SQL Server Performance Problem Solving Essentials

Not sure if you have a query or an index problem? Before trying to improve SQL performance, watch this series of videos. I explain how to check query performance in SQL Server and which problems you can solve by changing queries or indexes.

SQL Server Hardware

You've got a SQL Server, and you suspect that the hardware just isn't up to scratch. Whether you're wondering about cloud, VM, or on-prem servers, this course can help you answer some fundamental questions about how your SQL Server Hardware is holding up.

Advanced SQL Server Query and Index Tuning

Think you're ready for advanced performance tuning techniques to make your SQL Server go as fast as possible? 

You're in the right place.